Green Party City Councilor Chuck Turner arrested and charged with accepting a bribe
November 25th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Posted at Green Party Watch
According to the Boston Globe, Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, a Green-Rainbow Party member and City Councilor since 2000, was arrested Nov. 21 and charged with accepting a bribe. The affidavit alleges that Turner accepted a $1,000 cash bribe on Aug. 3, 2007, in exchange for pushing for a liquor license for a local business.
Video news of a rally for Turner, and actions the Boston City Council may take can be watched here.
Chuck Turner maintains his innocence, and there is a website devoted to supporting Chuck Turner here.
Filed Under: Green Party
8 responses so far ↓
1 Sivarticus // Nov 25, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Interesting. The same thing happened to a Green city councilman in Minneapolis named Dean Zimmerman a couple years ago. Zimmerman went to jail for it too.
I have no love for the Greens, but I was sorry to see this. Minneapolis and St. Paul, like Boston, are totally totally under Democratic domination. These are one party cities, and the Greens are the only ones who occasionally seem to slip through the cracks of the Dem machine in liberal cities.
2 Ross Levin // Nov 25, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Looks like anyone is susceptible to corruption and the corroding influences of power. Something to be wary of if you run for office, I guess.
3 LaineRBT // Nov 25, 2008 at 11:15 pm
I’ve often believed that any party that achieves any power will eventually succumb to the temptations of power; the Greens and Libertarians or no less immune to this should they reach the level of power that the Democrats and Republicans have.
4 LaineRBT // Nov 25, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Ughh..wish you could edit your posts. I of course meant to use ‘are’ instead of ‘or’.
5 LaineRBT // Nov 25, 2008 at 11:17 pm
And I notice more and more typos. Whatever.
6 darolew // Nov 25, 2008 at 11:38 pm
“WE ST AND WITH OHUOK”
That’s how I first read the graphic. My vision might be bad, but c’mon, there’s no reason to use that tilted A or those weird Cs.
7 Catholic Trotskyist // Nov 26, 2008 at 2:43 am
This definitely is a good propaganda tool for those of us who disparrage third parties, and advocate working within the two major parties. Even in the Catholic Trotskyist Party New World Order, there will still be some corruption, although it will decrease.
8 Ms. Know // Dec 5, 2008 at 3:56 pm
So many of the elitist illuminati are being brought up on fraud. I’m thinking this is the Watergate era again.
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